A Baby Boomer's musings on art, family history, reading and finding a little beauty each day.

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Something Bookish

The Readers - 12x24 inch oil on canvas

Last year was a better reading year than I thought. Looking back over my Goodreads page, I see that I finished sixty books, which is nowhere near the number I used to go through in a year, but better than I thought, considering the amount of time I spent napping or going to medical appointments in 2018, and the fact I started listening to Sirius radio instead of audio books in the car.

Looking back over the titles I completed did quite a lot of re-reading of titles I enjoyed in the past, and a higher than usual percentage of non-fiction titles. The older I get, the more I like memoirs. I was also interested in the book about how Janesville was affected when the GM plant shut down ten years ago. I thought I knew more about that situation than I actually did.

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Raised on a Wisconsin dairy farm, for many years I taught in the Janesville public schools; retiring in 2006. These days I have the time to paint, to read, to travel and to research local history. Life is good!